Dispensing-container for shaving-soap, &amp;c.



H, ALKLING. DISPENSING CONTMNER FOR SHAWNG SOAP, &c.

1 APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24. 1915- 1,177,252.

Patented Mar. 28,1916

R m m m .ATTORNEV HERBERT a. KLING, or wnsqrwoon, NEW JERSEY.

DISPENSING-CONTAINER FOR SHAVING-SOAP, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 24, 1915. Serial No. 16,777.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT A. KLING, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Westwood, Bergen county, State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Invention Relating to Dispensing- Containers for Shaving-Soap, &c., of which the following is a specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing,

which forms part of the same.

This invention relates especially to a feeding soap box or dispensing contalner adapted for use with sticks of shaving soap or the like and preferably comprising a. sheet metal threaded casing having at its upper portion a cylindrical alining tip and inturned gripping flange to engage the article, a follower having a threaded base cooperating with the threads in the casing and a feeder bottom revolubly connected to the lower end of the casin as by locking groove and bead and having feeder arms extending through slots in the follower, and a suitable cover closing the upper end of the easing and having, if desired, a threaded connection therewith.

In the accompanying drawing showing in a somewhat diagrammatic way an illustrative embodiment of this invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken along the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the cover. Fig. 5 is a corresponding view of the body or casing before assembly. Fig. 6 shows on a correspondin scale in vertical section the follower, and Fig. 7 the feeder bottom in perspective. p

In the illustrative embodiment of the invention shown in the drawing the casing or container body 4 may be formed of nickel plated brass or any other suitable material and may be stamped or drawn in the usual way to form a seamless tube in which suitable screw threads or helical corrugations may be spun or rolled. The upper end of the casing is preferably made of somewhat smaller diameter and given a smooth cylindrical shape for 'sufiicient distance to form an alining tip and the extreme upper end may be bent or spun inward into the form of a guiding or gripping flange 5 to firmly engage or grip the article 21 suchas a cake of shaving soap or the like, it being des1rable in some cases to form separated slits such as 18 in the inner edge of this flange so as to increase its resiliency.

A suitable follower preferably formed of sheet metal so as to have the convex top 7 for contact with the central portion of the article may be formed with a beveled port1on Sadjacent its outer edge and with a base 6 having formed therein threads 20 of such character as to properly cotiperate with the threads in the casing. When this follower is rotated with respect to the casing in any desired way it isgradually fed up through the casing by the cooperating threads on these parts so as to feed the article out of the upper end of the casing and compensate for its use. This may be conveniently done by having a suitable feeder Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

bottom revolubly mounted at the lower end of the casing and having suitable operating connections with the follower to effect its rotation. This feeder bottom 11 maybe stamped or drawn'out of similar sheet metal so as to preferably have formed thereon the desired numberof feeder arms which may be integral therewith in some cases. As

shown in Figs. 3 and 7 three such feeder arms 15, 16, 17 are shown as formed inte-' gral with the feeder bottom and connected with its upper portion which is preferably given the form of a guide flange 14 fitting within the lower cylindrical portion 19 of the casing. These parts may be revolubly connected in any suitable way, as for instance by forming a. locking groove 13 in a the bottom above the lower bead 12 therein and forming a cooperating locking bead or flange 10 in the lower portion 19 of the easing. After these parts shown in Figs. 5 and i 7 are brought together a suitable spinning or nurling tool may readily flange in this locking bead so as to permanently connect the parts. As shown inFigs. 2, 3 and 6 these feeder arms 15, 16 and 17 may extend just inside the threaded base 6 of the follower and pass through suitable feed slots or apertures 9 formed in the follower so as to ositively rotate the follower in unison wit the'feeder bottom and thus screw it up gradually through the casing as the soap or other article is fed forward, the feeder arms loosely engaging the article and maintaining it insubstantial alinement when three or more feeder arms are used, although two such arms are suflicient for a su itable feeding connection and somewhat minimize end of the sanieso that when the follower has been forced ,to its ,full extent the backward ln'oveinent of the" feeder bottom such as would be necessaryitoscrew the follower down again causes the follower toenandp'revefltthe retraction of the follower which is necessary to refill the container.

A suitable cover ofany desired character may be used in connection with the casing and as shown this sheet metal cover I may have a convex top and pro ecting. top'bead :22 and if desired have 'analining bead 2 in.

such position'as to engage the gripping flange 5 when the parts are screwed together by tlieengagement of the'th'readed lower end ofthis cover with'the threads on the casing 4," In assembling thes'e'parts the threaded "portion of the cover and the adjaeent cylindrical portion slip easily over the'cyli'ndric'al alining tip of the casing so that the-parts naturally fit together and'in thiswayfthey are brought into substantially accurate longitudinal alinement which greatly g the threads during thls operatmn. Thisinvention has been described 1n connection with" a, number of illustrative e1n-' *botlimehts, proportions, dimensions; parts,

materials and arrangements and {methods of manufacture, to tllQ'tlttflllS of which d1sclosure the invention is what is de forth in the appended "claims.

ingatits upper portion a cylimlrical alining tip. and an iiiturned gripping flange to en gage the article a cover having an 'alinin'g bead tocooperate' with said grip iing flange am} a ahhmgportu n and a threaded lon'crend to own ward ly' extending" vl'indrical engage the threm'ls' on thocasingi ,'a follower withln said"caslngand having a convex uppersurface and a threaded base cooperat .I g l n I mg with the threads insaid casing, there being a serl'es of feed slots in said follower.

nay be formedein. each iid acent the upper promotes the proper engagement of not of course'to be limv 'ited,since a Y lVhatis claimedas new and sired to be secured by Letters Patent .is set notches in the upper ends of said feeder arms to preventretraction of said follower.

2'. The dispensing container adapted for use with shaving-soapor the like comprising a sheet metal threaded casing havmglat its gage in these notches and thus lock the parts lower end of said ,.casing and having feeder arms extending through said slots in said follower and having upper ends located within said gripping flange at the upper end of said casing and non-return locking notches in the upper ends of said feeder arms to prevent retraction of said follower.

3 The dispensingcontaine' adapted for use'with shaving soapor the like comprising a sheet metal threaded casing having its upper portion formed to engage and guide the article, a follower within said casing and having a convex surface to engage the article and a threaded portion cooperating with the threads in said'casing. there bemg a series of feed slots in said follower,

a feederl)(7 tt ()Il'l revolubly connected to the lower end of said casing by a locking growe and bead and having integral feede' arms extending through said slots in said fol lower.

4. They dispensing container adapted for use with shaving soap or the like comprising a sheet metal threaded'casing having its I upper portion formed to engage and guide the article, a follower within said casing andhaving a threaded portion cooperating withthe threads in said casing, there being a series of feed slots in said follower.- a feeder bottom,re'irolubly connected to the lower end of said basing and having feeder arms extending throughsaid slots in said Union In JESSIE .W

follower. 

